Google has announced that they will not be having Jamboard as one of their tools as of the end of next year. I am not a prolific user of Jamboard but I do model and use it as a collaboration tool in lots of my in class facilitation and in toolkits and presentations.
It has been interesting to look at what is being promoted as an alternative to Jamboard. I watched an interesting presentation be Alice Keller, Laureen McCann and David Curran on Move Over Jamboard-Meet Figjam. I was very impressed with Figjam it can do so much more than Jamboard could do and it is free. You can also upgrade to the Education version for free and it was quick. You can add video and links, you can drag and drop images, google docs, slides, sheets. It has an infinite canvas which was the hardest thing to get my head around, it has no pages but you can add sections to your canvas and group them so they appear next to each other in a nice order. Even better and more helpful you can right click and get a copy link to the sections. There is also so many templates available for you to use. It had lots of fun with the extras like stamps that you can personalise, sticky notes and extra widgets and Plugins. A great tool that is easy to share with students and collaborate. A great easy to use tool. Now to investigate some of the other collaborative tools that are being suggested as an alternative to jamboard. Mural, Whimsical and Canva.
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